Meet the Team

Office of Community Outreach and Engagement

The Office of Community Outreach and Engagement is dedicated to understanding the burden of cancer in the 23-county catchment area, forming partnerships with the community and scientists, conducting outreach, and facilitating implementation of evidence-based cancer risk reduction and screening to ensure that catchment area needs and disparities are addressed.


Message from the Associate Director

“Together, we will expand education and access to evidence-based cancer screening and prevention services to address our catchment area’s needs and eliminate disparities.”

The team is a group of passionate and highly qualified professionals with years of experience in health care disparities, health equity, health system redesign, community-based health education, translational research, program evaluation, biostatistics and geographical information systems. The Community Outreach and Engagement team is also supported by clinical community navigators, community health resource coordinators and community health workers. All work together to connect community members to needed clinical and social services, as well as provide community education and outreach. Citizen scientists, research coordinators and research assistants link investigators and community members and facilitate access to interventional research trials, particularly for communities that are traditionally underrepresented.


Leadership

Associate Director for Community Outreach and Engagement

Ramzi G Salloum
Phone: (352) 294-4997

Assistant Director for Community Outreach and Engagement

Lakeshia Cousin

Lakeshia Cousin PhD, APRN, AGPCNP-BC

Phone: (352) 273-6318

Director of the Office of Community Outreach and Engagement

Jennifer N Woodard
Phone: (352) 294-5974

Outreach and Education

LaTrina Massey

LaTrina Massey MPH

Assistant Director of Outreach & Education
Phone: (850) 576-4073
Laura Parra

Laura Parra MPH, CHES

Community Programs Specialist
Phone: (352) 273-9004
Zoe A Parrales

Zoe A Parrales

OPS – Community Health Worker
Phone: (352) 273-8010
Leah Hartman

Leah Hartman

OPS – Community Health Worker
Phone: (352) 273-8010
Jacqueline Sutton

Jacqueline Sutton

OPS – Community Health Worker
Phone: (352) 273-6615

Cancer Screening and Care Navigation

Jamie Hensley

Jamie Hensley MHCM, CCRP

Assistant Director Of Cancer Screening & Care Navigation
Phone: (352) 325-3702
Natalia Sanchez

Natalia Sanchez

Public Health Navigator II
Phone: (352) 294-8569
Mel Hernandez

Mel Hernandez

Public Health Navigator I
Phone: (904) 452-8370

Interns

Eloise Wein
Department: HA-UFHCC COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Eloise Wein

Community Health Intern
Phone: (352) 273-5794
Isabelle Barbery
Department: HA-UFHCC COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Isabelle Barbery

Community Health Intern
Phone: (352) 273-5794
Emily R Palmer
Department: HA-UFHCC COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Emily R Palmer

Community Health Intern
Phone: (352) 273-8004

Community Participative Research

Kathryn Pluta
Department: MD-HOBI-GENERAL

Kathryn Pluta

AST SCTST
Phone: (352) 294-9949
Jacqueline De La Cruz
Department: MD-HOBI-GENERAL

Jacqueline De La Cruz MPH

Clinical Research Manager
Phone: (352) 627-9086
Antwan D Brinson
Department: HA-UFHCC COMMUNITY OUTREACH

Antwan D Brinson MPH, MS, CHES®

Community Participative Research Coordinator

Evaluation

Easton N Wollney

Easton N Wollney Ph.D.

Research Assistant Professor
Phone: (352) 627-9467
Yi Guo

Yi Guo PhD, FAMIA

Associate Professor & Interim Division Chief, Biomedical Informatics
Phone: (352) 294-5969

Administration

Shantavia Webb

Shantavia Webb

Administrative Specialist I
Phone: (352) 273-9394

Guided by local stakeholders

GOVERNANCE

Community Advisory Board

The UF Health Cancer Center's Community Outreach and Engagement office is guided by a Community Advisory Board, which plays a vital role in collaborating with our leadership team, program directors and Cancer Center members to ensure that our work focuses on cancer-related issues that are critical to the communities we serve. The success of the Cancer Center and the CAB hinges on members’ expertise working with diverse communities and stakeholder groups in North Central Florida.

Community Advisory Board (CAB) of the UF Health Cancer Center's (UFHCC) Office of Community Outreach and Engagement

Innovating through collaboration

fostering collaborations

Community Scientists

Community scientists collaborate with researchers to ensure community perspectives are incorporated throughout the research continuum, from topic identification to study design and dissemination of findings.

community scientists

Engaged with our community

PARTNERING FOR A GREATER IMPACT

Community partners

The UF Health Cancer Center's Community Outreach and Engagement office partners with a range of academic, clinical, community and UF organizations.

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